system in oklahoma. not only oklahoma, but every other state supported education had the same priority. up until that time, states used what they called the out of state tuition claim. this was a plan where if african-americans wanted to study a discipline that wasn't available in their state at the historically black colleges, they would offer to pay some stipend to go out of state to attend school. they were using that for decades. but this supreme court decision basically brought end to that, saying that wasn't good enough. they deserved a chance to have education within the state at a state supported school. that brought an end to the dual education system in higher education. once admitted to ou, that didn't end everything because she was admitted on segregated basis. state law still applied. in my mom's case, they had all the other students in the law school to come to the front of the class. they had theater style seating. it was like sitting in a theater, walk in, step up a row. they put all the

city, the capital of oklahoma. learn more about oklahoma city all weekend long on american history tv. >>> my name is bill clark. welcome to the state capitol of oklahoma. spend a little time taking a look at a very beautiful building. start here with solomon laten, the principal architect on the capitol. this is a 1915 drawing of the capitol, and i show this to folks just so they understand the dome really was a part of the plan in the beginning. the building was built without the dome between 1914 and 1917. did not build the dome then because they ran out of money. but they had built all of the supporting sub structure for the dome. so when we got around to building the dome, beginning in 2001, we were able just to start at the roof line and go up. the base of the building is covered with pink and black granite that comes from oklahoma. white indiana limestone on the main part. the dome is covered with a man-made stone, and that's how they were able to match the building as well as they did. the floors of the cap

in the state of oklahoma, absolutely. but especially to be here up on the stage with some of oklahoma's top, brightest business leaders in the state and certainly some of our best leaders and civic leadership in our state, with gary, with cliffs and with pat and ray. i am so honored to be able to receive this honor larry doctor with such outstanding oklahoma role models. i hope you will all emulate the things these leaders have done for this university as you continue on. i have to tell you, you have done a great job, president henry, at this university. this university is one of our shining examples, shining stars of success of education in the state of oklahoma. it is a great honor to be here today to celebrate and to congratulate our outstanding new oklahoma graduates. you have helped me increase -- helped me reach one of my goals of increasing the number of graduates in our state. to all the graduates, we are very proud of you. you have worked very hard to get to this moment. now hopefully you can get a little sleep,

settled in 1889, oklahoma city is the largest city in oklahoma. it has a population of about 600,000 people. and is the center state's capital. you are watching american history tv on c-span 3. >> i said my name is blue clark. and i said hello, ladies and gentlemen. hodelga -- i said that my clan is the winn clan and my church. i come out of the town. you are viewing behind me the point for the american indian culture center in oklahoma city. it is one of those monuments in my mind that happens once in a lifetime. when completed, this will be the focus of children's and grandchildren's understanding of who american indians are. non-indian, whomever passes through here. this will advertise the state of oklahoma. this will advertise the united states. this will advertise a major portion of american history which is indigenous. and on this continent, the vast majority of that history is pre-history for hundreds of thousands of years if not millenia. native people have been in this area for a very, very long time. over time they had moved with drought

school at the university of oklahoma. sometimes i will do institutional books like that, but if i can put out fiver 60 years i have to be very disciplined. once the research is done in the afternoon or perhaps in the evening i devote myself each morning to writing. no one is in my office. my personal have not shown up. no clients. if someone knocks on the door i ignore them because that is my time when i sit with my research and type away. i have my research behind me here. there are some shells on the current book and writing gun, which is the centennial history of the journalism school. although research is involves a decade. i'm riding on the 1920's. here is the fullerton, research on what happened. when i complete that, very orderly fashion a put that in that box on the floor because for every box there is in the office, that means their is a book project. so it doesn't overwhelm you with a lot of information. if it's about someone lies i have often been asked to how would you put all the information about a former go

to be the first woman governor of the state of oklahoma, it really does tell you how great oklahoma is. so, i hope that when you think about your future that you know that no matter what your circumstances are, no matter where you come from, you can be anything you want to be if you work hard, if you never give up, if you take risks, if you believe in service to others. i will also tell you that life will not always go exactly the way you hope it will. sometimes there will be setbacks and disappointments. setbacks are actually opportunities for comdex. when you have a setback, come back -- come backs. when you have a setback, do not let it hold you back. even in my job as governor, i've learned something else that is important that helps me do my job better in our state. receiving your degree is not only a milestone in your career, but your degree also marks the end of a journey in your life and the beginning of another journey in your life, and now it is up to you as graduates to use the knowledge that you received from oklahoma city university, a greek university, to put that knowled

oklahoma city is the largest city in oklahoma. it has a population of about 600,000 people, and is the sooner state's capital. you're watching "american history tv" on c-span3. >>> at high noon, the guns fired and the cannons go off and the flags go down and 50,000 people rush for free land. the land run was a unique way of opening the public lands. since the 1860s, congress had a policy on the books called the homestead act, and the homestead act said that anyone who would move to the frontier on to public domain and would stay for five years and make improvements and satisfy all of those conditions, they would receive title to the land. because basically free land encouraged settlement. the west was search settled, through kansas into new mexico, through arkansas, and so all of the land around us is settled in the 1860s, 1870s, and into the 1880s. well, all of this time, oklahoma is withheld from settlement at the indian territory. starting in the 1810s, congress and the president started moving tribes out of the southeast, the

life in 1920s oklahoma and american artifacts from special collections at the oklahoma history center. once a month c-span local content vehicles for history and literary life of cities across america. this weekend from oklahoma city on c-span2 and 3. >> now on c-span2 harriet washington once a corporate presence in the medical industry ones buyer issues for patients if drug research is initiated on a for profit basis. this is just over an hour.

yesterday mitt romney campaigned in oklahoma city with oklahoma governor mary fallon. it was hours after president obama anoujsed his support of same-sex marriage. >> thank you all for coming today. i want to thank chairman panell for hosting us today and all of those who have come to be part of our welcoming team to governor mitt romney to the great state of oklahoma. and it is my great pleasure to welcome governor romney, the next president of the united states, from the great state of oklahoma. >> thank you, governor. [ applause ] >> governor romney, i'm sure you have heard that you are now in the reddest state in the nation. >> congratulations. >> senator john mccain when he ran for president in 2008 carried every single county in the state of oklahoma. so i'm promising that i'm going to do all i can to help you carry every county, every 77 county in the state of oklahoma to help you in your race for the president of the united states. in oklahoma is a great state, we're a very conservative state, governor. we are people who believe in the power of the individual,

of oklahoma inform 1907. this is your best look at the dome. there's a ring that marks the beginning of new construction. everything about that line was. >> how long did it take for them to add the dome? >> 16 months. started in april of '01, and they were finished by october of '02. from the beginning there was always a group of people who wanted to finish the capitol and build the dome through the years different groups have time to raise money. the governor put the right people together to raise the money. his goal was to have the centennial looking like it was supposed to look, as it was originally designed. the large paintings are by charles banks wilson. he starts with the history of oklahoma. this is on the early frontier. one interesting thing about wilson, he does not make things up. all the people are real people. all the background scenes are actual oklahoma locations. probably will never forget that because i had his twin granddaughters on tour one day. and they made sure that everybody knew that

collections at the oklahoma history center. once a month c-span's local content vehicles explore the history and literary life of stories across america. this weekend from oklahoma city on c-span2 and 3. >>> sunday on q&a -- >> i don't regard this as just the biography of lyndon johnson. i want each book to examine a kind of political power in america. i'm saying, this is the kind of political power. seeing what a president can do in a moment of great -- in a time of great crisis.

she had to be rejected because the oklahoma laws and the oklahoma constitution printed african-americans from going to school with whites. but in doing so, it set up a supreme court decision that in 1948 said basically that she had a right to get a legal education in oklahoma as soon as anybody else has a right to get a legal education in oklahoma. it did not end separate but equal, but it certainly put the dual educational system on trial. she had a pretty good lawyer. his name was thurgood marshall. and he was then the general counsel for the naacp defense fund. the naacp said that nationally they were going to bring an end to segregated education. and throughout the united states, they were looking for cases that could get them to the supreme court. and so my mom had just graduated from college in 1945. and she was a valedictorian from her class in high school, an honor student at the university, and so the president of the local naacp and the chick shea knew my family. my mom happened to be in the room when they were discussing it so she agreed to be the plaintiff. they went and appl

. >>> all weekend long, american history tv is in oklahoma city, oklahoma, to explore its history. you're watching american history tv, 48 hours of people and events telling the american story. >>> these films depict. liberation. economy. love of self. love of community. what these films depict is what white society never saw for the most part. and if they saw elements of it it, they surely did not talk about that amongst themselves. what these films depict is an america that one man, reverend jones, had the foresight to say this is worth investing in and this is worth telling. that's what these films depict. oklahoma african-american experience is truly unique. we came as the slaves of the native americans. you had five civilized tribes that all owned african-american slaves. we also participated in all six land runs and then we came as citizens. so those three migration patterns are how african-americans settle oklahoma. those that were involved in slavery and their children received 40 acres of land, so that is something that is still historically, it's unique for oklahoma, it's

eastern, oklahoma history on american history tv on c-span3. tour the oklahoma city bombing material with codesigner torre booster. plus a look at african-american life and native american artifacts from the special collections at the oklahoma "history center." once a month, local content vehicles explore sfe cities across america. this many weekend everybody oklahoma city on c-span2 and 3. >> a discussion now on the role of courts in a democracy. a panel of legal scholars examine whether it's possible

i think oklahoma is very important. do i understand you that the regulation had served as an impediment to job creation in your community. >> that is correct. >> what is the unemployment rate? >> today it's about 4%. however, when the downturn in the economy happened we didn't know there was a recession going on as far as what we were feeling until we had new policies that came in and almost overnight we lost a number of jobs because of new policies. >> but at 4.1%. >> today it's good. >> what percentage of your county is federal or controlled land? >> i know we're only 15% privately held. i believe it's about 59% that's blm. i think 16.5% and a little bit of state institutional properties. >> do you have any idea on that federal land how many leases have in fact been or permits have been granted but not utilized? >> i know there's a fairly strong backlog on the bidding process. >> in some case it's a utilization issue that some have been granted and not used. >> what i've been told is it's very difficult because someti

. >> next, a look at the recent visit to oklahoma city, oklahoma. to learn about the rich history and literal culture. you are watching american history tv all weekend every weekend on c-span 3. >> we are at the african-american visit center. this was the first exhibit of the african-american experience. over 500 museums and historical societies and when this exhibit opened, it was the first exhibit of the african-american experience. it covers everything from the preterritorial days to the present day accomplishments. my mother was the first african-american woman to be admitted to the school of law. when laws in oklahoma prohibited african-americans and whites from going to the same schools, sitting in the same classrooms, they were separate systems in oklahoma. she was the first person to try to break down those barriers and she did it by applying to the university school of law. she had to be rejected because the laws and the constitution prohibited african-americans from going to schools with whites, but set up a supreme court decision that in

settled in 1889 it's the largest city in oklahoma.s a population of about 600,000 people and is the center state capital. you're watching american history tv on c-span 3. i'm the curator for the oklahoma historical society. and this is the storage area where we house all of our artifacts that deal with oklahoma and its american-indian history. there's not many in the world, this one left the tribe in 1865. and was collected by a colonel william clark. this was during the american civil war. they were sent to build words around the post and to improve the post.

in oklahoma, the ramp-up in horizontal drilling and hydraulic froshing activity in oklahoma within the last decade occurred during a period of severe drought. we faced serious issues about the sources of waefrt for hydraulic fracturing operations. we also needed to do what we could to encourage recycling of the flowback waters from hydraulic fracturing operations to minimize the demand on our fresh water resources. for that reason, we had to take another look at our regulations for the management of produced waters. in oil and gas operations. for many years we had prohibited, basically, pits used to store produced waters. those had been phased out decades ago. but now we in a situation where we needed to accommodate the temporary storage of flowback waters in pits see that that water could be used in future hydraulic fracturing operations and we could save our fresh water resources. to address the issue, the corporation commission worked with the industry and other interested parties to develop new rules for the large pits used to store flow back waters on a temporary basis so they cou

[cheers and applause] >> coming up next the oklahoma city university graduation. this is about 15 minutes. >> thank you. what a wonderful honor. thank you so very much. i appreciate and accept this honoree docket rat with great pride and humility because it is truly an honor to be able to accept it from oklahoma city university one of our greatest universities in the state of oklahoma -- absolutely. but especially to be here up on the stage with some of oklahoma's top, brightest business leaders in the state and certainly some of our best leaders in civic leadership in our state with gary, with cliff, and with pat and ray. i am so honored to be able to receive this honoree doctorate with such outstanding oklahoma role models and i hope you will emulate the things these leaders have done as you continue on. i have to tell you, you've done a great job here at this university. this university is one of our shining examples, one of our shining stars of success in higher education in the state of oklahoma and it is a great honor to be able to be here today to celebrate

settled in 1889, oklahoma city is the largest city in oklahoma.oner state's capital. you're watching american history tv on c-span 3. >>> my name is matt reed. i'm the curator of american indian collections for the oklahoma historical society. and it is the storage area where we house all of our artifacts that deal with oklahoma and its american indian history. this is a yankton bison hide tepee. there's not many in the world. this one left the tribe in 1865 and was collected by a colonel william clark. he got the tepee because he was stationed, or posted to fort rice in dakota territory. this is during the american civil war. his volunteers were basically sent there to build roads and infrastructure around the post and to improve the post, fort rice itself. and while they were there they had a fairly amicable relationship with the yankton that lived in the area. and he had the opportunity a couple times to go out on buffalo hunts with them. and during one of those hunts he had an accident and that's how it's described in our records. and before h

daadaoui from oklahoma city, oklahoma. >> my book on morocco is a micro dynamics. it is a book that studies the sources of the moroccan monarchy and the reason for its survival for centuries. iraq and monarchy has witnessed a long, a remarkable longevity because the dynasty, not to be confused by the al dynasty or ruling family in syria, two different families. but in this current dynasty has been known since 1641, the 17th century. so my book looks at the causes, survival, especially post-independence air from 1956, under french colonial rule from 1956 again come my book looks at how the monarchy managed to create a new form of religious the base on its traditional and religious power. used in codifying what i call in my book ritual power. for example, the monarch is ask them to be the commander the faithful, it will have certain endowed blessed moroccan. the monarchy every year, you know, throws grandiose spectacle of allegiance. so i look at these rituals and symbols of power, how it's a stage in morocco, manufactured and produced them and reproduce them in orde

oklahoma and eastern territory. in the 1830s, the five civilized tribes were removed from the southeastern united states to indian territory. that is unique. that is our story. our story is not about that event, though. it is about the people. some of who were german here like animals, who literally made up for for themselves a new home out of the forest of indian territory. there is always research going on. it is never finished until it is printed. >> objects from oklahoma city, george henderson details the challenges he faces one of the earliest african-american academics at oklahoma university. his book is raised and the university. >> at first i thought, well, i finally made it, mom. here i am in a nice quiet suburban university, no problems. life will be idyllic. wrong. i found out that we were not allowed to be here after dark. we could come and work, but african-americans have to get out of town before the sun went down. i also found out that we were the first african-americans to own a home. there were some

city, oklahoma. you're watching american history tv, 48 hours of people and events telling the american story. >>> on the fifth anniversary of the bombing of the murrah federal building in oklahoma city, oklahoma governor dedicated a national memorial to the victims on the site where the building once stood. 168 people, including 19 children died in the 1995 blast. >> on april 19th, five years ago, another spring wednesday like today, the flag of our nation was flying over the murrah building. it is flying over our memorial today and i know it flies proudly in all of your hearts. for those who have perpetuated this act, we have one message. in america, you can speak and write and vote and complain, but there is no right to maim and bomb and kill. and if you think that you can bring that flag down, there is your answer. we have so many special guests today. it is a home coming for many of you who came to oklahoma in 1995 and gave us your sweat and your tears and your support. we welcome home all of yo

city, oklahoma, this weekend. with the help of our local cable partner, cox communications, we bring you some of the area's literary and historical churl. culture. >> i'm carey mcgruder with the university of oklahoma libraries, and we're a premier research facility in the field of the history of science. we have nearly 100,000 volumes stored in two climate-controlled vaults. part of the history of science program brings students and scholars from around the world to use these books. galileo's first book is here. it's, it's his rarest book. it was printed in only 60 copies. it's called "on the geometrical and military compass." the operation of the compass, geometrical and military, by gal gal lay low galilei, printed in 606 -- 1606. but i'd like for you to note if you, if you were here and would rub your finger across some of the letters like that o, the type was very crisp. the metal type, it bit into the paper. and you can feel every crease. youyou could almost read this blindfolded, and that's because this is

senator and now president of university of oklahoma. one note of significance, we also have the papers of his father, lyle born, and recently the retiring congressman, dan born signed a deed to commit his papers here. so we have three generations of the born family in terms of their paper. you can kind of see that the range of things that are in the collection, from official correspondence and clearly political papers to those things that are more personal and nonpolitical from everything from notes and cards, over here we have another exhibit of materials from young constituents, children that write to congressmen, send them handwritten letters. you have both insight into the personal lives of members as well as the official activities that they were involved in. the most significant part of the center's physical setting is a replica of the speaker's office. this is the 46th speaker of the u.s. house of representatives, and the space itself had furniture and pictures and memorabilia from his capitol office right off the house of repres

city, oklahoma. learn more about oklahoma city and c-span's local content vehicles at c-span.org/localcontent. next month, we'll feature wichita, kansas. you're watching american history tv, all weekend, every weekend. on c-span 3. >>> brown university history professor gordon wood is the author of several books on america's founding fathers. coming up he talks about his latest book "the idea of america: reflections on the birth of the united states." professor wood is interviewed by national review's senior editor richard brookhiser. the new york historical society hosted this hour-long event. for coming out on this grim night. but you had a great incentive which is to hear gordon wood. i'm going to begin by paying you, gordon, a round-about compliment. it's a little late, but a nice one. i had dinner with newt gingrich in 1994. and he had -- he had just become speaker elect. the republicans had just captured the house in the '94 election for the first time in 40 years. and at the dinner he talked -

it really does tell you how great oklahoma is. so i hope that when you think about your future, that you know that no matter what your circumstances are, no matter where you come from, that you can be anything you want to be if you work hard, if you never give up, if you take risks, if you believe in service to others, and i will also tell you that life will not always go way you hope it will. life is full of setbacks and disappointments. the setbacks are opportunities for comebacks. and when you come back, come back stronger. just do it even better. to let things holding back. and never stop learning. -- do not let things hold you back. and never stop learning. i learned something every day that is important, that helps me to do my job even better in our state. so, receiving your degree is not only a milestone in your own career, but your degree also marks the end of the journey in your life. but also the beginning of another journey into life. and now it is up to you as graduates to use the knowledge that you have received from

[inaudible] but it was made in oklahoma city. i finally got to go to the warehouse where the bomb was supposedly made. it was not made by everything that day. it was not made by timothy mcveigh. he and my second son were stationed at fort riley, kansas, and they did not make bombs. terry nichols wrote me and told me that that bomb that he and tim made did not look the blow up the federal building because they didn't know how to make bombs and that bomb they made was no good. it was very lumpy. there are a lot of things that seem like nobody wants to talk about. >> let me address one or two of those things. you know, i think a lot of rumors are circulating. i think a lot of troubling hints of information are out there, and i think it is very important to try and distance that. to distinguish that from fiction. it is absolutely true that terry nichols has written that he wants to believe the bomb he built with mcveigh was not the one who blew up the murrah federal building. i don't believe him. he built the bomb, he described it in

it was made in oklahoma city. i finally got to get to the warehouse where the bomb was supposed to have been made. it was not made by timothy mcveigh. timothy mcveigh was in the army sure. he and my second son rescission together at fort riley kansas. they did not make bombs. they also went to the persian gulf together. terry nichols wrote me and told me that bond that he told me to not blow up the federal building be as they to know how to make bombs. it was real lumpy. there are a lot of things that seemed like nobody wants to talk about. >> okay. let me address one are two of those things. you know, i think a lot of rumors have been circulated. i think a lot of troubling and some of information are out there, and that think it is very important to try to distinguish fact from fiction. it is absolutely true that terry nichols has written. he wrote this to us as well. he wants to believe the bomb that the bill with mcveigh was not the one that blew up the

. >>> next, a look at our recent visit to oklahoma city, oklahoma, to learn about the city's rich history and literary culture. you're watching american history tv. all weekend, every weekend on c-span 3. >> and at high noon the guns fire and the canons go off and the flags go down and 50,000 people rush for free land. the land run was a unique waive opening the public lands. sint 1860s, congress had a policy on the books called the homestead act and the homestead act said anyone who had moved to the frontier onto public domain and would stay for five years and make improvements and satisfy all of those conditions they would receive title to the land. it was basically free land encouraged settlement. the west was virtually settled at least through the airiable lands. high plains, th southern plains through kansas and through new mexico and through arkansas and so argument the land around us is settled in the 1860s, 1870s and into the 1880s. well all of this time oklahoma is withheld from settlement from the indian territory. start in the 18-teens congress and the president started moving

. >>> next, a look at our recent visit to oklahoma city, oklahoma to learn about the city's rich history and literary culture. >> at high noon, the guns fire, and the flags go down and 50,000 people rush for free land. the land run was a unique way of opening the public lands. in the 1860s, there was a homestead act. said anyone who would move to the west and -- they would receive title to the land. it was basically free land to encourage settlement. the high plains, the southern plains, through kansas, into new mexico, through arkansas and so, all of the land around us is settled, in the 1860s, 1870s and into the 1880s, all of this time oklahoma is with held from the settlement as the oklahoma territory. starting in the eighteen teens, they started move thing indian tribes. so it's just one vast indian reservations and other indian reservations are abolished, there's this one little island, in 1889, there are no more tribes to bring into the territory. but yet there's one parcel right in the middle of the indian territory that's unassigned so it gets it's name is unassigned lands. today

like oklahoma. oklahoma, indiana, lot of the midwestern states where they don't have huge populations of immigrants are still demographically the same as they were in the 1950s or '60s. >> i come from southwest oklahoma, farm and ranch area, we had the cultural changes there. i went to a school that had -- we are now minority in that school as white americans. but i think that with the economy and way the economy is going and way that our nation has changed over the course of the years we've seen this growth in just a few areas, people are moving at a large rate right now because they're moving where the jobs are. this will become a cultural impact for the whole country itself. >> good one for bad one? this country is always evolving coming from oklahoma i'm part indian so i mean, look how -- >> you and everybody else from oklahoma. >> okay. >> we don't all live in teepees there. but we've seen the changes. this nation has been changing since its very beginning. so it will continue to evolve. >> you

collections at the oklahoma history center. once a month c-span's local content vehicles explore the history and literary life of stories across america. this weekend from oklahoma city on c-span2 and 3. >>> sunday on q&a -- >> i don't regard this as just the biography of lyndon johnson. i want each book to examine a kind of political power in america. i'm saying, this is the kind of political power. seeing what a president can do in a moment of great -- in a time of great crisis. great crisis. how he gathers all around. what does he do to get legislation moving to take command in washington? that's the way of examining power in a time of crisis. i said, i want to do this in full. i suppose it takes 300 pages. so i couldn't -- that's why i just said, let's examine this. >> robert caro on the passage of power, volume 4 in "the years of lyndon johnson," his multivolume biography of the former president. and look for our second hour with robert caro sunday may 20th. >>> environmental protection agency administrator lisa jackson to

collections at the oklahoma city history center. once a month explore the history and literary life of cities across america. this weekend from oklahoma city on c-span 2 and 3. >>> the civil war battle of shiloh took place april 6th and 7th, 1862 in hardin county, tennessee, and resulted in a union victory over confederate forces attempting to defend two major western railroads servicing the strategically important mississippi valley. nearly 100,000 troops took part in the fighting which produced nearly 24,000 casualties, making it the bloodiest battle to that point in u.s. history. american history tv visited shiloh park where stacy allen, the chief ranger gave us a tour of the battlefield. >> if you'd been stand hearing in april of 1862. even march of 1862, this would have been a very busy landing, in hardin county in the southwest section of the state of tennessee. the area was being used as a base of operations by the united states army. the army that disembarked was under the command of ulysses s. grant. the reason the army was

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tim duncan slipped through the oklahoma city defense for an overhead jam.20th straight victory, 120-111. san antonio now holds a 2-0 lead in the western conference finals. >>> baseball, phillies at mets. hours after learning their injured ace roy halliday would be out six to eight weeks, david wright drove in a run in the first. rookie pitcher hefner helps his own cause with his first career home run. and then, of course, came the rain. but after a delay, the mets won it 6-3. >>> on the other coast, ryan braun led brewers against the l.a. dodgers with a two-run homer to the right in the first and that's all milwaukee needed. mike fiers allows one run on five hits in seven innings. for a 2-1 victory in his first major league start. >>> down the santa ana freeway from dodger stadium, an angel in the outfield, second inning leap robbed the yankees' nick swisher of a home run. in the third, albert pujols hits a 443, 443-foot two-run homer, his eighth round-tripper in may after none in april. the angels win it 5-3. >>> finally, a stunner in women's tennis. at th

how about that oklahoma hail. >> incredible stuff, lynn. a lot of areas had hail yesterday, upwards of severe hail, much larger numbers, there were a few big hail stones and this one, these pictures are coming in from the storm rileders on the weather channel, simon justin were out there yesterday, recorded one of those hail stones not far from in piedmont, oklahoma at five inches. big time numbers across a few areas. we are looking at still i want to mention some of the storm reports in the northeast to show you were not alone. oklahoma some of the largest numbers but we picked up at least ping pong ball size hail in portions of vermont as well as new hampshire. today, different scenario here across the northeast. we have the front in place so we can trigger showers, maybe thunderstorm activity back here across eastern portions of pennsylvania and new york may dodge a few showers, the clouds may help to keep down the chances at least a little bit. here to the southeast, dealing with tropical depression beryl, still 30 mile per hour storm m

in oklahoma it makes it easier for doctors to be sued, but not all doctors. it makes it easer to sue abortion doctors. in kansas they approved a tax code to punish women who seek abortions. it include what is amounts to a new tax on abortions. it's also a personal style language in the kansas still that suggested a fertilized egg is a person. new restrictions on when you're allowed to have an abortion and new mandatory, anti-abortion script and reading materials. doctors will be forced to give to kansas women including the discounted myth that abortion can cause breast cancer and a measure that makes it legal for doctors to essentially lie to women about their pregnancies in order to prevent them from seeking an abortion. that bill passed the kansas house last week. doing all of that and now it ie peer appears to be stalled. he said even though he had not read the bill, he'd probably sign it. regardless of what's in it? while we're on the issue of republicans rushing to sign off on any bill that wanders anywhere near them. georgia's republican governor signed